Famous last words eh? Or not, depending on how you view the battle between Search and Social. One of our favorite traditions at My City Lives, is our once a week meet-up with someone new to throw down ideas and generally ...Read More

Over the past few weeks we have been working really hard to answer this question and frankly are only a little bit ahead of where we started. Should it be a top down approach, or should it be from the ...Read More

Until recently, my thoughts on company culture have been an extension of personal preferences and values, be it something simple like having a library to facilitate continuous development or ensuring that My City Lives will create social value because ...Read More

So everyone knows that print media is dying or already dead. Personally I don't know why it's taken this long and of course you get every organization trying to preserve their way of life through various means like giving it ...Read More

I have a confession. Creating a value proposition for My City Lives has been such an exercise in futility thus far, that I had conceded defeat despite knowing its importance to my startup's strategy. Oh yes, and I have a MBA. Somewhere, a former professor of ...Read More

by Adil Dhalla While the hippie movement can be explained and characterized in a number of ways; it can alternatively be simply summarized as one of history’s most famous statement against the status quo.  Of course, if we flash forward to ...Read More

by Adam Ben-Aron (@MyCityLives) So I’ve read a lot lately (the past few months) about people who had immigrated to America that are emigrating back to their original home country. Most of the cases I’ve seen have been people going back ...Read More

by Adil Dhalla (@CreativityKTR) Nod your head if you’ve heard that recessions are a great time to start a business. Nod your head if you’ve read that on this blog. Most of you should still be nodding. While writing the business ...Read More

by Adil Dhalla (@CreativityKTR) “People are making lots of money charging nothing,” says Editor in Chief of Wired and author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson. “Not nothing for everything, but nothing for enough that we have ...Read More